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    "text": "After a couple of months, about 90% of our engineers were now using tools like … regularly to generate code. So on paper, it looked like we were all in on AI. But our CEO was convinced that engineering wasn't using AI at all, like they couldn't be, right? … he was concerned because we weren't shipping any faster.",
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